Star Track: Amanda Carner

October 29, 2006

Swimmer Amanda Carner of Newport News won eight individual races and took part on a winning relay for the Coast Guard Blue Dolphins on Oct. 14-15 at the Midtown Community Center. Her big weekend came while she was competing in the South Eastern Virginia Aquatics statewide A/BB/B/C meet. She set two team records for her 11-12 age group, winning the 100-yard backstroke in 1 minute, 2.72 seconds, and the 1,000 freestyle in 11:01.88. Her other victories came in the 50-yard butterfly (28.40 seconds), 200 individual medley (2:16.64), 100 IM (1:04.11), 50 backstroke (29.52), 200 back (2:12.84) and 500 freestyle (5:23.13). Carner is a seventh-grader at Gildersleeve Middle School and is starting her fifth season with the Blue Dolphins.

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